Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Life well spent is long.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Our life is made by the death of others.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.